Mother- Daughter Date Ideas- 20 ideas to spend quality time with your little girl.i love the one that says to take photos, not just of the kids but of you with the kids. Spend time doing things together :)

Salt Painting -- Draw a picture with glue, sprinkle salt, dip a paintbrush in water and food coloring and touch it to the salt...kids will be mesmerized.

Draw a picture with glue, sprinkle salt, dip a paintbrush in water and food coloring and touch it to the salt... Kids will be mesmerized. Website has fun ice and food color idea too- scroll to bottom of post

SALT ART- Draw a picture with glue, sprinkle salt, dip a paintbrush in water and food coloring and touch it to the salt...kids will be mesmerized.

4th of July - Sparkler Shield... keep those little hands safe July 4th

Sparkler shield. Great idea for kids on 4th of july

FYI... Did this last 4th of July and the plastic cup started to melt and burned the kids hands... The only way for this to work good the cup needs to be changed everytime!!! Sparkler Shield... keep those little hands safe this summer. What a really great idea!

Mess Free Finger Painting - this is GENIUS!!! kids craft

Mess Free Finger Painting- Squirt two primary colors in each of the 3 Ziplock freezer bags, with a white piece of paper inside or underneath. Get ALL of the air out of the bags & seal them shut. Tape them down with painter's tape.

Paint in ziplock bags, taped to table. Great distraction, no mess! (to add to this: I think, so long as the paper is under the baggie, you could write words, put stickers or little drawings, and then spread out the paint throughout the bag. They could then use their fingers to move the paint around and uncover little surprises, just like one of those Fisher Price Mess Free Finger Paints sets)

The Hippie Housewife: Mess-free finger painting

Another Pinner said: This kept my 2 year busy for an entire hour and my 4 year old busy for 2 hours! YAY! Drop vinegar tinted with food coloring onto a pan filled with baking soda. Sheer minutes of colorful fizziness!!... Pretty sure we will be doing this soon! GENIUS!

The Top 10 Things Kids Want Their Parents to Do with Them (based on 16 years of classroom polls). Such a good list of reminders of what matters most to our kids. I like this. What a “Hands Free” Summer Looks Like.

The Top Ten things Kids Want their Parents to do with Them. Amazing & insightful! What a “Hands Free” Summer Looks Like | Hands Free Mama